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by seneca 4y ago
> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time... General facts may
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Big tech includes more people, and pays more, now than it did in 2019. 2020 and 2021 hiring and offers were unprecedented. Things have slowed down, but this is no where near a dead, or even cold, industry.
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Modern day Lysenkoism. Compromising science for ideology, any ideology, is one of the more destructive things a society can do to itself. Not only does it halt progress, it destroys the credibility of the scientific community.
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It doesn't really even have to be all that small, just high trust. There are road-side produce stands that run on the honor system all over the rural American southeast. They have no idea who will show up. Many are on country highways,
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Yes, this was when we had a liberal society. Western countries have rapidly trended toward authoritarianism in the last couple of decades, unfortunately, and liberalism is in its death throes.
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It's largely a matter of record keeping. We know all about the Greeks and Romans because they left libraries full of stories and documents. The vikings are almost entirely only known from other people writing about them.
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Depending on the company, layoffs are usually only known about ahead of time in HR and at VP+ levels. Your team manager is just as worried as you are.
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> If society is 99% people who refuse to associate with a holocaust denier and 1% deniers then what happens? That's a great question. In short, the 99% of people should tolerate the 1%. They don't need to choose to associate wi
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> I'm sure that we don't need a debate to agree that genocide is something that's not acceptable. Do you disagree? This is a logical fallacy called equivocation. Denying a genocide happened, however repugnant it may be, is
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Absolutely. Freedom of association is critical. That's an individual right. That individual right being upheld is a little different than a society not tolerating an idea, which almost always means suppressing it, and is what the perso
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> Holocaust denial is such a pervasive and murderous conspiracy theory that any free and open society cannot tolerate. Free and open societies don't decide at all what they tolerate. That's the entire point. If certain ideas ar
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> there is no country in the world today which is responsible for nearly the amount of brutality, oppression, and exploitation as the United States In a world containing North Korea, Iran, China, and Egypt, I can't imagine how incre
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This is the classic excuse. "Bad outcomes aren't the fault of X, you're just doing X wrong" even though X always leads to the same bad outcomes. When an initiative fails, the solution is rarely to do more of it.
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> I've sat through a lot of DEI sessions at work (as have many of my friends), and I've yet to hear of anyone actually _hiring_ under-qualified candidates for the sake of a quota. That's because it's often illegal, a
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I think you're largely dead on. "DEI" programs are affirmative action dressed, along with an authoritarian undertone. > "Reparations are the right thing to do. Offering opportunity to those we have taken them from&quo
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Yes, in a world where those two groups have the exact same make up, it would mean that. That's not true at all in this context. There are differences between racial groups. No one is shocked and appalled that Jewish people are hugely o
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> Yes good, because white and asian folks absolutely do have more opportunities than other racial groups, and that’s borne out over and over again, whenever people look into these kinds of things. If you look at academic outcomes, black,
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> There's alot of US cultural biases. You're correct overall, but be careful about equating greater US culture with the culture at big technical firms. They overlap, but are often deeply at odds with each other.
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> In order to succeed there was only one person responsible for my happiness and good fortune, myself. I had to stop waiting for good things to happen, and make sure that I took faith in my own hands. This is the best response here. Too
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Referring to yourself as a "subject" is a very unhealthy worldview. There are a lot of bad bosses, but there are a lot of great ones who regularly put their neck on the line for the teams they serve. It sounds like you've had
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This is a political talking point, pretty far from established fact. It comes from the article you sited specifically. Here's another partisan article debunking it: https://www.aier.org/article/did-tipping-come-fro
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> The only point you'd be making by choosing zero out of pique is "bcrosby95 is an asshole." Please don't make comments containing personal attacks here. It degrades the community.
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> In that case you wouldn't be entitled to any of society's collective work either. Electricity? Sorry you didn't invent it. I buy electricity. I don't tell the people creating that I am entitled to it because we&#x27
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I think you hit it dead on. This is design by committee and organizational dysfunction. Strava has been flailing for years now, dropping much used features and just generally antagonizing its customer base. It's a wonder they're s
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Posting "thanks" as you is not something to be offended over. It's poor form socially, and that's about it. You're upset that you got fired, and you're over reacting to something that isn't a big deal. I&#
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> These sound like things that can be done by someone who has resources when and where they need them. > They do not sound like something that can be done consistently by someone without regular transportation or pay. If someone has
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Not saying you're wrong, but I feel the need to point out the framing that something being controlled by government beurocrats is what makes it public by this definition. Charter schools are often free to attend, available for anyone t
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> In addition to actually being open, the local public schools went all in with BLM. As a homeschool family, I can tell you that this is a lot of it. It's not a new change, but having their kids' classroom streamed into their h
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> ...as it should be. If the privileged keep playing their privilege games while neglecting equity, society does not work. Society isn't a game of wealth transfer. Equity is the goal for one ideology, not for the vast majority of Am
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> how much is due to police explicitly telling crime victims not to report or that a report will be useless, because they are trying to politically undermine a progressive DA? I'll go ahead and suggest something like zero. This is a

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